The average woman business owner loses 5-6 hours of productivity each week because she’s just plain tired. Even though you’re physically present during those “missing” hours, you’re not accomplishing anything.

Here are five ways to increase your energy. You don’t have to use them all, but if you implement even one or two, you’ll see an immediate increase in your energy level.

According to studies by the Procrastination Research Group, 95% of us are prone to procrastination and 20% of us are chronic procrastinators.

There are some standard reasons for procrastination. Maybe your goals are unreachable or perhaps you’re just a disorganized person. But, if you’re like me, you have the skills to get things done, but put them off because you just don’t want to do them.  Here are some tips to help you overcome procrastination.

If you put in crazy hours on a regular basis, you are on a collision course with burnout.

But sometimes you’ve just got to work long, stressful days. When this happens, renew your energy with these five key routines.

These days it seems like we are all trying to do more with less, both at home and in the workplace. The result is a high level of stress which seems to be compounded by the fact that others around us seem stressed as well.

While you can’t eliminate stress, here are a few approaches you can use to decrease unwanted stress in your life.

No matter what your personal or business life looks like, you can increase your success by eliminating certain negative traits from your life. Look at the list below and see if one or more of these describe you. If so, set a goal to eliminate that factor from your life.

Five Things to Eliminate to Increase Your Success

After you’ve spent hours (and often days) developing a great presentation, your delivery is the icing on the cake. You can truly raise others opinion of you by delivering your presentation in a professional, personable, and motivating manner.

Here are five keys to improving your delivery.

Even if you’ve developed a great presentation, landmines can explode immediately before or while you’re delivering it. Avoiding these issues begins in the preparation.

After you’ve actually created your presentation, here are five key elements in preparing for it.

Ever feel like your Mojo has left town and you don’t even care to chase after it? With everything you’ve got on your plate, these periods of blah can really slow you down and negatively impact your business and personal life.

It’s important to regain your motivation as quickly as possible and here are five ways to do just that.

If you’re still mailing out press releases and hoping to gain media attention, you are wasting your time. Today’s reporters work in an entirely different mode than just a few years back.

Here are five approaches that will gain the attention of a reporter.

According to statistics, a staggering 48% of sales people don’t follow up with a prospect after a meeting. Combine this with the fact that it takes five to twelve contacts to close a deal, and you can see why a lot of sales never materialize.

But this doesn’t mean you should badger a prospect with generic calls and emails. Rather, each contact should be a valuable exchange between you and your prospect. Here are five ways to do that.